- 7.8/10144 votes7.8/10(144)
#1 - Murray's Tale
Season 2 Episode 1
Aired 9/16/1993
Lisa takes Murray out for a walk and returns with a dog that obviously isn't him. Meanwhile, Paul and Jamie contact the cops and everyone else joins in the hunt for the real Murray. When they finally find him they also encounter people that own the dog Lisa brought home that turn out to be totally different than them.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10150 votes7.7/10(150)
#2 - Bing, Bang, Boom
Season 2 Episode 2
Aired 9/23/1993
Phone calls, noisy neighbors and an invisible mouse being chased by Murray are some of the distractions that Paul and Jamie face while struggling to find romance during a long-awaited evening toether.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Paul Reiser
- 7.5/10137 votes7.5/10(137)
#3 - Bedfellows
Season 2 Episode 3
Aired 9/30/1993
A suspected heart attack sends Paul's father to the hospital, leaving his mother home alone, until Jamie tries to score some much needed ""points"" with her mother-in-law.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Danny Jacobson
- 7.4/10140 votes7.4/10(140)
#4 - Married to the Job
Season 2 Episode 4
Aired 10/7/1993
An evening out at Riff's sees Paul complaining about his meddlesome new producer, and Jamie venting about her same old credit-grabbing boss, who happens to be seated nearby.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Russ Woody
- 7.0/10139 votes7.0/10(139)
#5 - So I Married a Hair Murderer
Season 2 Episode 5
Aired 10/14/1993
Paul is anything but pleased with Jamie, who has too much free time on her hands, and uses it to cut his hair and his film, improving on the original cut.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10134 votes7.1/10(134)
#6 - The Unplanned Child
Season 2 Episode 6
Aired 10/28/1993
Paul's shooting schedule leaves it all up to Jamie to go out trick-or-treating with his seven-year-old nephew, whose extended two-hour visit Paul forgot to mention to her.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Jack Burditt
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- 7.7/10143 votes7.7/10(143)
#7 - Natural History
Season 2 Episode 7
Aired 11/4/1993
What brought Paul and Jamie together? Was it fate or a big coincidence? Jamie's belief that it was fate annoys Paul to no end, especially because Jamie is spending more time with Lisa than with him.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10148 votes7.6/10(148)
#8 - Surprise
Season 2 Episode 8
Aired 11/11/1993
Jamie suspects a surprise party waiting for her at home. However, that's not what has been arranged for her birthday by Paul, who gets separated from her on the subway en route to the surprise.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Jeffrey Lane
- 7.6/10135 votes7.6/10(135)
#9 - A Pair of Hearts
Season 2 Episode 9
Aired 11/18/1993
A free weekend in Atlantic City has been mysteriously arranged for Jamie & Paul and Fran & Ira, by Ira's ex-wife as it turns out, now a casino hostess who wants Ira to sign divorce papers.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Danny Jacobson
- 7.1/10127 votes7.1/10(127)
#10 - It's a Wrap
Season 2 Episode 10
Aired 12/2/1993
An unemployed Jamie is envious of Paul, whose work is something he loves to do. Meanwhile, Paul feels betrayed by his producer Lou, who is now tampering with Paul's latest labor of love.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10130 votes7.0/10(130)
#11 - Edna Returns
Season 2 Episode 11
Aired 12/9/1993
Lisa acquires her 15 minutes of fame under a pseudonym in her shrink's book, and Paul is caught in the middle of the sibling squabble that follows when Jamie takes exception to being called Lisa's overbearing sister.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10147 votes8.0/10(147)
#12 - Paul is Dead
Season 2 Episode 12
Aired 1/6/1994
The death of a Paul Buchman affects Jamie and Paul quite suddenly, leaving them without cash or credit. Meanwhile, Paul is morbidly curious about his namesake.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10125 votes7.5/10(125)
#13 - Same Time Next Week
Season 2 Episode 13
Aired 1/13/1994
Jamie and Paul must endure two months of separation when Paul has to shoot a film in Chicago, returning only for the weekends, weather permitting.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Danny Jacobson, Jeffrey Lane
- 7.7/10133 votes7.7/10(133)
#14 - The Late Show
Season 2 Episode 14
Aired 1/27/1994
Fran tells Jamie that she may be pregnant, and Paul finds out from Ira that Ira may have gotten someone pregnant, but neither realizes that it is Ira who might have gotten Fran pregnant.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10139 votes7.4/10(139)
#15 - Virtual Reality
Season 2 Episode 15
Aired 2/3/1994
Paul invests in a startup venture, bringing out a virtual-reality system with Ira, after a demo but without consulting Jamie, who reacts calmly to his actions, both real and imagined.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Danny Jacobson, Jeffrey Lane
- 7.7/10139 votes7.7/10(139)
#16 - Cold Feet
Season 2 Episode 16
Aired 2/10/1994
A Valentine's Day story that begins with Jamie and Paul at Rockefeller Center rink side and moves back three years to the day they finally moved in together and ended up engaged.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Danny Jacobson, Jeffrey Lane
- 7.5/10123 votes7.5/10(123)
#17 - Instant Karma
Season 2 Episode 17
Aired 2/14/1994
Jamie's fortune cookie predicts that bad luck will follow the guilty, but Paul is convinced her luck is being visited on him even as they head for a party at Yoko Ono's place.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10140 votes7.6/10(140)
#18 - The Tape
Season 2 Episode 18
Aired 2/24/1994
Jamie and Paul are horrified to discover that Paul has unwittingly handed over their revealing homemade video to the Family Network, instead of a documentary about a zoo.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Paul Reiser
- 7.8/10142 votes7.8/10(142)
#19 - Love Letters
Season 2 Episode 19
Aired 3/10/1994
The Buchmans find letters written by former tenants of their apartment chronicling a World War II love story that Jamie feels parallels her and Paul's.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Jeffrey Klarik
- 7.3/10126 votes7.3/10(126)
#20 - The Last Scampi
Season 2 Episode 20
Aired 4/7/1994
Jamie and Paul refuse to take sides in an incident between their mothers, while Lisa plays both sides to her advantage. Meanwhile, Murray is found to be suffering from his own mother problems.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10157 votes7.9/10(157)
#21 - Disorientation
Season 2 Episode 21
Aired 4/28/1994
The night before Jamie returns to school she worries that Paul might not support her fully. In the morning before Jamie leaves, Paul realizes that he has forgotten to mail her registration.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Jack Burditt, Jeffrey Lane
- 7.2/10131 votes7.2/10(131)
#22 - Storms We Cannot Weather
Season 2 Episode 22
Aired 5/5/1994
Althrough he is pretty disturbed by Jamie's lenieny to her younger school college, Paul accepts to hang out with them on a blind date that Jamie organised for Nick & Fran. But, while talking about an idea for a movie about the fastest cook on the world, Paul discovers that the waiter at the Riff's is no one else than Mark, Fran's ex-husband...
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Danny Jacobson
- 7.6/10136 votes7.6/10(136)
#23 - Up All Night
Season 2 Episode 23
Aired 5/12/1994
Jamie is suffering from sleeplessness because she drank four cuffs of tea full of coffeine while learning for a test. All furious, Jamie urges Paul to spend the night awake with her that leads them to an all-night adventure in the building, from the basement to the rooftop, which ends with a tango together with John Astin, if that's who he really is.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Writer: Jeffrey Klarik
- 7.3/10128 votes7.3/10(128)
#24 - With This Ring... (1)
Season 2 Episode 24
Aired 5/19/1994
Paul finds Mark working in a local store. After he meets the owners of the shop, Kim & Tammy, Paul finds out that Mark is learning to pray Zen. While Mark is trying to make him join him in pray, Paul finds out that he lost his wedding ring. Worried about what will jamie tell him, Paul rushes to the house to find him.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Jeffrey Lane
- NaN/100 votesNaN/10(0)
#25 - With This Ring... (2)
Season 2 Episode 25
Aired 5/19/1994
The real marriage anniversary arrives and Jamie gives Paul a gift - swiss military knife - and receives a gift from Paul - a machine for making sugar products. Both disappointed with their gifts, they go to a store where it turns out that they have totally different opinions about children. Then, when they have lunch with Paul's sister, the Buchmans try to entertain Susan's son Nah while she's on the phone. Paul realizes that having kids is nothing different than having a dog, but Jamie has totally different opinion...
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Danny Jacobson
The Best Episodes of Mad About You Season 2
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Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Murray's Tale" is the best rated episode of "Mad About You" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 144 votes. Directed by Thomas Schlamme and written by N/A, it aired on 9/16/1993. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Bing, Bang, Boom".